Air accidents stats

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/pictu ... lines.html

Interesting article, listing the banned airlines, accident stats, etc

I have been on that website before, interesting to read. I was however alot less nervous then, bad idea looking at it now!

Statistics can be useful for comparisons.

Planecrashinfo tells us that even on the worst 25 airlines, the odds of being killed on a single airline flight are 1 in 843,744.

UK statistics tells us that there were 646 pedestrians killed in one year - from a population of 60,975,000 - That's 1 in 94,388!

So unless you take more than 9 flights a year on the world's most dangerous airlines, you have a greater chance of being killed just walking out of your front door.
All forms of transport (UK) produced 2968 deaths equivalent to over 40 "dangerous" flights.

So you could just stay indoors ... but ... 4627 accidents in the bathroom ... that might get a little difficult ... and if you even think about going near stairs ... 3459 deaths through falls.

Not to mention the 11,809 annual deaths through other UK "accidents" - that's 163 "dangerous" flights - or almost 1,800 flights a year on the safer airlines

Nervous about flying

Statistics and damn lies Bill - when you layer over demographics and behaviour, those statistics look very different depending on who you are!